Clothes-washing machine



T. HOREMBALA CLOTHES WASHING MACHINE Filed Nov. 15, 1923 INVENTOR ATTORNEY 5 Patented Feb. 3, 1925.

UNITED STATES.

TEOFIL HOBEMBALA, OF WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CLOTHES-WASHING MACHINE.

. Application filed. November 15, 1923. Seriai No. 674,875.

1 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TEOFIL HOREMBALA, a naturalized citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at \Vindsor, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glothes-ivashing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for washing clothes, the invention having for an object the provision of a simple and efficient clothes washing machine which, in operation, subjects the clothes to a. thorough agitation.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1 of the drawing is an axial vertical sectional view of my improved washing machine.

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary axial horizontal sectional view.

As here embodied washing machine comprises an upright frame consisting of the end elements or standards 10. This frame supports a. cylindrical receptacle 11 which is arranged with its axis horizontal and which is engaged at opposite ends with the standards 10. The peripheral wall of this receptacle is longitudinally corrugated as shown. The receptacle is provided with an opening at its top side which is closed by a cover 12 hinged at one side as at 13, this cover not being corrugated. This receptacle, as will be understood, is adapted to have the clothes to be washed placed therein.

Vithin this receptacle a rotary agitator for the clothes is mounted, this agitator being mounted on a shaft 15 extending from end to end of the receptacle co-axially there to and being here shown as driven from an electric motor 16 mounted on a platform 17 supported by the frame 10 and extending under the clothes receptacle 11. This motor has fixed on its shaft 19 a worm pinion 2O meshing with a worm gear 21 on a stub shaft 22 to which is fixed a small pulley 23 over which is looped belt 24 looped also over a larger pulley 25 on the shaft 15.

my improved clothes The rotary clothes agitator comprises a pair of heads each consisting of two pairs of diametrically opposed arms 30 and 30, radiating from a hub 30 fixed to the shaft 15. These arms are formed with borings 31 entered longitudinally inward from their outer ends and in which are slidably mounted the rods 32 and 33, the rods engaging in the arms 30 and the rods 33 in the arms 30. The pairs of rods 32 which project in a common radial plane from the respective arms 30 are united at their outer ends by the integral rod elements 35 which extend parallel to the shaft 15, while the corresponding ones of the rods 33 have mounted on their outer ends the rollers 36 which likewise extend parallel to the shaft 15. These rollers 36 are formed with circmnferential corrugations as shown, these corrugations being at right angles to the corrugations in the wall of the receptacle 11. The various rods 32, 33 are urged outwardly in the arms 30, 30 by means of expansion springs 37 which are carried in the said arms and bear on collars 38 on the said rods.

The different pairs of rods are adapted to be given a sliding movement as the rotor rotates, to movethe members 35, 36 toward and away from the corrugated wall of the receptacle 11, movement in an outer direction being efiected by means of the springs 37. To efiect movement of these rods 32, 33 in an opposite direction they are provided on their inner ends with fingers 42, 43 which project, parallel to the shaft 15, through longitudinal slots such as 44 in the arms 30, 30. The fingers 43 on the rods 33 engage at their ends in a circular recess 46 in the inner face of a bearing element 10' for the shaft 15. This recess 46 is eccentric to the shaft 15, its centre being lowered, so as to allow the rollers 36 to move toward and away from the wall of the receptacle 11 when the rollers are moving upward and downward respectively in their movement with the rotor of the machine.

The fingers 42 engage in deeper recesses 48 in the same bearing elements, the upper portions of these recesses 48 being concentric to the shaft 15 while the lower portions are formed with a number of ratchet like extensions 49 with which the rods engage, thereby causing the rod elements 32 to be moved a number of times toward and away from the wall of the receptacle during each revolution of the rotor. In order to maintain the Water in the receptacle at a desirable heat I may provide an electric heater such as 50 under the said receptacle.

It is believed that the manner of operation and use of my improved clothes washing machine will be readily understood from the above description, it being understood that a suitable amount of water with soap will be placed in the receptacle with the clothes to be washed. When the motor 16 is started, the rotor in the receptacle is caused to rotate, the corrugated rollers 36 riding over the clothes, which are pressed between said roller and the corrugated wall of the receptacle, while the rod elements 35 have a combined beating and rubbing action on the clothes.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as fol lows:

1. A clothes washing machine comprising a cylindrical receptacle, a rotor in said? receptacle, said rotor including rod and roller elements extending longitudinally of said receptacle and adapted to engage the clothes to be Washed, and means for moving the said elements radially as the rotor rotates, said means comprising springs adapted to move the said elements outwardly, and fixed cam members operatively connected to said elements to move the said elements inwardly.

2. A clothes Washing machine comprising a cylindrical receptacle, a horizontal shaft extending through said receptacle concentrically thereto, a pair of heads fixed to said shaft one adjacent each end of the shaft, said heads including radiating members having longitudinal borings formed therein, rods slidable in said borings, fingers on the inner ends of said rods projecting from said heads, fixed cam elements on the receptacle engaging said fingers to move the said rods longitudinally, and clothes engaging elements on the outer ends of said rods.

3. A clothes washing machine comprising a cylindrical receptacle, a rotor in said rcceptacle, said rotor including rod and roller elements, radial members slidably supported on the said rotor and carrying the respective rod and roller elements extending longitudinally of said receptacle and adaptedto engage the clothes to be washed, and means for moving the said elements radially as the rotor rotates, said means being adapted to cause the said rod elements to move at a higher ratio than the roller elements and comprising separate cam fixed elements on the receptacle, and fingers projecting from said radial members-into operative relation with the respective cam elements.

In testimony whereof I have atlixed my signature.

TEOFIL HOREMBALA. 

